Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-19
THE WORK OF CONGRESS.
Bills Passed by the Forty-Ninth Congress
and Approved by the President.

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To increase the pensions of widows and &c
pendent relatives from s. TO si2 per month.
To abolish certain fees for uficial service
10 American vessels, and 10 amend the chip
ping laws ithe Dingley shipping bill.
To amend the Thurman act.
For the increase OF the naval establishment
To pension Mexican war veterans.
To impose a tax and regulate the manufac
ture, sale, importation aud expectation o
oieomargariDe.
To authorize the transfer Of the HighwooI
tract near Chicago TO the United States foi
military purposes.
To protect homestead settlers within rail
road limits.
To enable national banking associations to
increase their capital stock and change their
name and location.
For the construction OF u congressional
library building.
To forfeit the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and VIcksburg railroad (5ackbone), land
grant.
To reduce the fees on domestic money
orders for sums less than -.
To make allowances for clerk hire 20 post
masters Of the first and second classes to
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order business.
To extend the immediate delivery system.
Making an appropriation for additional Lar.
racks at the southern, northwestern aud
western branches OF the national soldiers
home.
To prohibit the passage OF local OF special
laws In territories.
To provide for closing up the business Of
the court OF Alabama claims.
To establish add ,tiCnal life saving stations.
Extending the free delivery system 70 towns
Of l0.0N inhabitants.
For the sale OF the Cherokee reservation In
Arkansas
To amend the statutes so as 10 require
brewers to give bonds for three times their
estimated monthly tax.
For the allowance of Fourth OF July claims
reported by the accounting officers Of the
treasury department Zone hill for each OF the
two sessions,)
For the issue OF postal notes in sums lcss
than IS.
To validate the general laws of Dakota.
Regarding the incorporation OF insurance
companies.
To provide for a school Of instruction for
cavalry and light artillery.
To provide for the inspection OF tobacco,
cigars and snuff and TO repeal section 3l6l of
the revised statutes.
To provide for filing the Office OF United
States treasurer In the absence OF the treas.
urer and assistant treasurer.
To restrict the ownership OF lands In terri.
tories 10 American cltiztns.
To prohibit government employees from hir-
Ing or contracting out labor OF United States
prisoners.o
To amend the net prohibiting the importa.
ton and immigration Of foreigners under la
Dor contracts.
AmendatOry OF the act dividing Illinois into
judicial district, and providing for the hold
lag OF terms Of coGrt at Peoria.
Relative 10 contested elections.
For the employment Of mail messengers IN
the postal service.
To regulate the jurisdiction OF United states
circuits.
For the adjustment of land grants and for
feiturc OF uuearued lands.
To add the number Of cities 10 the list Of
national bank reserve cities, and 10 allow part
Of the reserve to be kept In cities other than
New York.
For the relief of settlers on public lands in
Kansas and Nebraska.
To provide for bringing suits against the
government
To increase the limit Of the cost Of public
buildings, al Peoris, H., and Keokuk, la.
For the completion aud improvement Of
public buildings at Dcs Moines, La.
Forty house joint resolutions became laws,
The principal ones being as follows:
Directing the commissioner OF labor 10 make
an investigation rs 10 convict labor.
To authorize the president To protect Amer
lean fishing ana trading vessels and Ameri-
can fishermen in Canadian waters (the senate
retaliation bill.
Authorizing an investigation Of the books,
methods and accounts Of Pacific railroads.
OF the total Dumber OF Hills which passed
the senate 800 became laws, including lis OF
public and POS of a strictly private nature.
The presidential succession bill, devolving
the succession OF the presidency upon members
OF the cabinet In the event OF n vacancy Ia the
Office OF president or vice president.
The Cullom- Reagan bill to regulate inter.
state commerce.
For the retirement and recoInage of trade
dollars.
The electoral count bill.
For the allotment Of lands In severslty TO
INDIANS and extending the protection OF the
TO Indians on the various reservations.
To repeal the tenure OF Office act.
To increase the annual appro yriatious Jor
militia.
To establish agricultural experiment sta.
lions.
For the study Of effects Of narcotics and IN.
toxicants IN the public schools.
To legalize the incorporation OF trades.
unions.
Authorizing the transmission Of weather
reports through the mails free of postage.
~ ihtitdeS TIC pension AOt IOss Ol al arm
or leg.
To indemnify the Chinese for losses sus.
tanned hy the Rock Springs, Wyo, riots,
For the relief OF Texas, Colorado. Oregon,
Nebraska, California, Kansas, Washington
territory and Idaho.
Authorizing the sale Of certain government
property in Chicago.
To remove the cnarge Of desertion from the
records Of soldiers who rc-enlisted without
having received discharges on account Of re.
enlistment.
To establish two additional land districts
in Nebraska.
To amend the laws relating to patents, trade
mark aud Copyrights.
To author " The postmaster general 10 allow
! com ensation for railroad apartment car ser
vice furnished pursuant 10 agree mcnt.
To bridge the Mississippi river at ST Louis
10 allow receivers Of national banks 10 buy
In trust property on approval Of the comp
trollrr II the currency.
To provide for the execution OF article Q Ot
the Chinese treaty Of November Il, 1850. q
prohibits the importation Of opium into
either country bv citizens 81 the Other.)
For the erection Of IA public building at
Milwaukee, Wis.
OF the foregoing measures seven became
laws by the expiration OF the constitutional
ten days limitation, VIZ
The Mormon polygany bill, trade dollar re.
dcmption bill, miltis. bill and four private
bills.